RMIT University Launches Australia’s First Blockchain Course

The 8-week course, entitled “Developing Blockchain Strategy”, was designed by RMIT’s Blockchain Innovation Hub and partners with consulting firm Accenture and fintech hub Stone & Chalk. The online course description promises a practical program that goes beyond the conceptual aspect of Blockchain: “You won’t just get a theoretical understanding of blockchain: you’ll learn how to use it.”

“It’s one of those things where a whole lot of different technologies have come together to contribute to it working […] Much of this course is designed to help executives and business leaders to understand not just how this new technology works, and understanding what’s actually behind it, but also how it reflects business models and business strategy.”

The general manager of Stone & Chalk, Alan Tsen, sees the strong connections between fintech, banks, and Blockchain means that this kind of course is needed:

“Banks are already behind blockchain technology in a big way […] There is a real demand for blockchain training and a skills gap in the market that needs to be addressed.”

RMIT’s course isn’t the first time that Blockchain and academia have found an intersection. UC Berkeley offers an interdisciplinary course on Blockchain, and a separate Southern California study will be released in June on the potential Blockchain career pathways for students.

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WAVES may become one of the more influential platforms allowing the technology for anyone to launch tokens. The fame of WAVES has led to the launch of 10,000 platform-specific digital assets. And while some of the tokens may not have a clear use case, the technology is drawing attention.

The WAVES market price has recovered somewhat after the correction, but after going to above $16, the current levels around $5 means the asset is back to the positions before the big December spike and crash.

WAVES and Tokenization in Russia

WAVES is a decentralized organization with an international presence, but in actuality, the project is perfectly positioned to gain the Russian crypto coin market, and unroll tokenization. Along with Ethereum, WAVES may serve for Russia the way that NEO and QTUM are seen as positive projects for the Chinese crypto space.

In the summer of 2017, WAVES attempted to create proprietary tokens and a blockchain solution for the Russian National Settlement Depository, and tokenize exchange-traded assets.

The WAVES Community

The WAVES team and community are constantly growing. Not only is the company hiring additional developers and marketers, but the additional WAVES Community Token and WAVES Go asset are helping generate loyalty.

The platform is competing with the NXT decentralized token ecosystem, as the founder Sasha Ivanov had experience with that platform before moving onto his own project. The Telegram group is more than 10,000 members strong.

All of these factors may serve WAVES well in 2018, by expanding the platform’s influence and improving the understanding of tokenization. At this point, the WAVES asset is far from Ethereum’s fame, but as networks become overloaded, additional projects may see their share of products. WAVES has smart contracts in the pipeline, to achieve yet another distributed app ecosystem.

The WAVES community token trades at $1.85, down from peaks above $4, while WAVES Go is more volatile, currently at $0.08, down from a peak of $0.30.

Other small-scale tokens only exist on the WAVES platform and are traded on the decentralized exchange. The WAVES project has had problems with fake tokens posing as official digital assets, most often Bitcoin.

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Bosch’s manager of IoT marketing, Sarah Nizze announced on Twitter that the 131-year-old multinational engineering company intends to adopt IOTA in their plans for autonomous vehicle development.

The news come as Bosch opens its first IoT hackathon of the year in Berlin with one of the challenges focusing on utilizing the growing potential of the ‘Internet of Things’ within the emerging autonomous vehicle market.

Bosch told BBC news in July last year that it has partnered with electromotive specialist Tesla to produce the first self-driving car, ahead of its competition with other U.S market competitors, Google and Uber.

Bosch believes IOTA’s data marketplace will provide the backbone for autonomous vehicles interaction, whereby cars will need to communicate with each other independently, constantly exchanging data with one another.

The team has even detailed ideas on how cars will financially benefit from creating slipstreams for other vehicles that they refer to as ‘platooning’. This ‘platooning’ concept explains how these autonomous cars will be able to automatically follow behind a lead car to reduce fuel consumption, whilst sending micropayments across the Tangle network to compensate the lead car for sacrificing theirs.

The Robert Bosch Venture Capital firm (RBCV) was reported to have bought a significant amount of IOTA’s MIOTA tokens in December last year after IOTA successfully launched its data marketplace; now RBCV sits on the IOTA advisory board and will play a key role in ensuring the longevity and success of IOTA’s future development. This move now clearly confirms that Bosch has been positioning itself for a while now to become the leader of this highly innovative and lucrative future industry.

Research from IoT Analytics has detailed a further 1,600 use cases for IoT across 10 major segments, in over 70 different countries and with over 760 IoT vendors. Advisory firm Bain predicts the B2B applications for IoT will be worth over $300 billion by 2020, with consumer applications worth $150 billion.

Bosch’s senior technological scout, Tak Dekel, commented on this new business venture with IOTA, depicting a new direction for the Tech Giant,

“This investment represents Bosch’s transition from a hardware company to a company that deals with data and monetization of data”.

What this means for IOTA

With IOTA starting to recover after the recent market correction, it’s likely that the project will see strong support going forward into Q2 2018 after faith restores in the crypto market.

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Could the legalization of marijuana in US states be rolled back?

President Trump has ordered increased enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized it. But the industry that has spent most of its life in the grey market is not going to be bullied. Like other industries, the marijuana industry is moving to the Blockchain and creating a self-regulating model. In the process, it is leapfrogging ahead of other industries in terms of legal and industry compliance.

Rather than circumvent legal and regulatory hurdles, Budbo is launching a blockchain supply chain solution for the cannabis industry with an unsurpassed level of legal and regulatory transparency.

The cannabis data analytics provider has developed a cloud platform that tracks the entire cannabis life-cycle, from seed to sale. The grower, manufacturer and dispensary all conduct development, sales and distribution activities transparently in compliance with national and state regulations. All transaction information across the lifecycle becomes part of a decentralized repository that can be leveraged to create cannabis product and quality control standardization across channels. The improved regulatory oversight could pave the way for the national legalization of cannabis.

Developing a Tokenized Global Cannabis Market

The gradual legalization of marijuana across US states over the years has created a fragmented industry in dire need of integration and systemization. By placing the entire cannabis supply chain on the immutable and transparent blockchain ledger, Budbo is creating the first truly national and global market for the cannabis industry.

Rather than operate outside the purview of regulators, Budbo is helping them do a better job. A truly innovative development is the ability of government regulators to view transactions and ensure product integrity in real time on the transparent transaction ledger. Budbo’s GPS system already tracks the logistics of cannabis products. This view into industry activity can be monitored by regulators via the Budbo blockchain.

Sharing Cannabis Intelligence

As a data analytics leader, Budbo will become an increasingly important data provider. Its mobile apphelps buyers choose the strain of cannabis they desire and then find reputable sellers while collecting important cannabis buyer trends on strain preference, effects desired, and so on. This information is stored in Budbo’s robust data analytics engine. The information is of great value to drug developers and dispensaries, which need to understand the emerging market demand and trends. These data analytics could also be used to develop regulations, for example, by informing the establishment of strain standards and quality control.

Regulators have a vested interest in pushing more cannabis sales into the legal market where data analytics like those provided by Budbo are improving product quality and efficacy. Only about 20 percent of the $50 billion in marijuana sales take place in the legal market. Putting the marijuana trade on the legal books has produced many benefits. States that have legalized weed are investing the tax proceeds into public health, education, and substance abuse prevention. The use of marijuana by adolescents has, in fact, declined as more states have legalized cannabis. Future tax windfalls from cannabis sales could be as high as $150 billion, according to an estimated value.

The Budbo ICO

All industry players, from growers and dispensers to government actors, will require the Budbo token ($BUBO) to conduct business in the decentralized market. Budbo’s token sale is already in progress. A total of 150 million tokens are being sold across five tiers with the price of the token increasing from$0.25 to $0.35. The pre-sale sold out early in January, so get in now before you miss the chance to join the cannabis blockchain movement.

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Please read! Here are the deal guys. Lending platforms are under attack. The # of YouTube videos, legal Orders, FB posts — everyone is against Lending now. For these newer ICO’s, they can’t survive or even launch. So what now?

Staking. They are now moving to short-term staking and long-term staking (replacing lending). They are all rebranding to be staking sites. If you bought coins, see comments for specific program updates.

Crypto programs have to remain nimble, otherwise, they’ll go down. I try to be patient through these setbacks. If you’re checking your acct every day, you’ll go crazy. I log in when my sponsor does a program update (1x or 2x a week).

**Crypto is gambling. I will lose most of the time. Out of 10 programs, I might win 1. Ideally that 1 covers the losses of the other 10 + Profit. If you can’t bear losing, then don’t do these. You’ll go bonkers! Even I feel like stopping sometimes. One day, I might. But for now, I’m willing to take the risk and stay in the game bc the potential reward outweighs the risk.

Bogart also believes that millennials are a likely factor contributing to Bitcoin’s upward movement in price, which is also supported by the Harris Poll for Blockchain Capital. According to the study, „19 percent of Americans and 32 percent of millennial Americans said they would invest in Bitcoin in 5 years,” which would be a ten times increase in adoption.

„There’s a lot of room for upward movement,” Bogart tells CNBC. „The drawbridges for institutional pools of capital have just been lowered.”

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Ripple is both a transaction network and crypto token, XRP, that was launched in 2012. Ripple gives banks and its users the ability to move money in real time.

What advantages does Ripple have?

3 Seconds transaction time

$0.004 Cost per transaction

1,500 Transactions per second

100 Billion in coin supply limit

Ripple is not only faster and more cost effective than other cryptocurrencies, it could also reduce friction between cross border payments. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse emphasizes that the use of blockchain technology not only creates value for consumers and banks, but for the whole ecosystem.